Geo Radio - Waitaki Whitestone Geopark

Learn about our September beach clean up day - Saturday 17th September at the Kakanui Beach Reserve on Beach Road (opposite the Old Bones Lodge). For more information about what to bring please see https://www.whitestonegeopark.nz/post/17-09-22-beach-clean-up-at-kakanui-beach-reserve

Learn about this free and fully resourced programme for Waitaki Schools.  Contact us to book a time for us to deliver this in your school. 

We recently had Students from the Otago University Science Communications visit the Geopark.  This is our third year of being their clients.  Students select a topic to create resources for use by the Geopark.  In the past students taking this course have produced brochures, pull up banners, graphics, and audio files (check these out on some of our new interpretation panels).  ...

Our August public talk will take place in the Omarama Hall on Thursday August 18th from 6 - 7 pm. Come along and find out about the active Ostler Fault.   For more information see - https://www.whitestonegeopark.nz/post/18-08-22-public-talk-the-mackenzie-basin-s-ostler-fault

Learn about resources we have available at www.whitestonegeopark.nz

Visit Vanished World in Duntroon to learn about the ancient sea that occupied the area from our current coast to inland from Kurow....and about some of the animals that lived here!  Visit the dig room and dig your own 25 million year old fossils.  Visit their website at www.vanishedworld.co.nz

Listen here to learn about our public talks - and where the next one will be.

We recently hosted two evaluators to the geopark.  Listen here to learn about their visit and where to from here....

Listen here to learn about our new ambassadors programme.  See our website for further details. The UNESCO evaluators are visiting our geopark very shortly - keep an eye on our website, and follow us on facebook!

Listen here to find out about our new interpretation signs and what kind of content they contain! Visit the sites and learn about the story's of our land and people.

Come along to this months public talk - to be held at the Kakanui Hall Thursday 16 June 6 - 7pm. Topic - the Oamaru and Kakanui Volcanoes

Join us this weekend for a beach clean up! Meet at 11am at the Doc site Kaihinaki near Moeraki Boulders.  

Learn about our June public talk to be held in person in Kakanui.  Plus details about our June beach clean up!

Listen here to learn more about the recent public talk on glaciers and past climate change.  Follow us on facebook - we have posted a link to a NIWA video on glaciers!

Please note both of these talks were live online and have not been recorded for later viewing.

Pre register for our public talks online Tues 17 May at 6:30 and Thursday 19 May 6pm. www.whitestonegeopark.nz

Find out more about this wonderful exhibition called 'Earth Caught in Stone' - a collaboration between Otago University, the Dunedin Art School and Geological and Nuclear Science.  Also sign up for a webinar where a selection of artists and scientists whose work is featured in this exhibition give a short talk on their topic.  Many of the topics in this exhibition feature geology and lan...

Listen here to find out about our online activities available on our website www.whitestonegeopark.nz

Listen here for details of the up and coming UNESCO evaluation of the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark.  

Our April expert speaker is Peter Almond from Lincoln University.  He will be speaking on soils, loess and climate change.  See our promotional flyer and register for this talk at www.waitakiwhitestonegeopark.nz This talk will be available later on our youtube channel. 

Check out the Earth Caught in Stone Exhibition at the Forrester Gallery - on now.  

This exhibition by GNS, Otago University and the Dunedin School of Art explores some earth science topics featured in our geopark, both through the scientific lens as well as an artistic lens. Keep an eye on our website www.whitestonegeopark.nz and our facebook page for dates and more information. 

Listen here to learn how you can join us in our virtual tour of four sites within the Geopark.  

Listen here to find out how to access this site, and what the outcrops here tell us of Oamaru's past. 

Listen here to find out about how our latest beach clean up went, and our public talk plan for March and April.